Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 110, Decatur, Adams County, 8 May 1928 — Page 7

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KLOSE CONTESTS MARK PRIMARY

jDaily And Stump Pile Up Big Leads Over The State

HOOVER HOLDS I BIC LEAD OVER J SEN. WATSON ■ Landis. Jewett And Schortemeier Lead In G. 0. I’. Gubernatorial Race ■ lIULEY AND STUMP MAY HAVE MAJORITY Meager returns from all over I Indiana at 1 o’clock this morn- ■ ing indicated that Frank C. I Dailey, Indianapolis attorney ■ had swept his seven Democratic ■ opponents by a large vole in the I Democratic gubernatorial race ■ and that Albert Slump, also of I Indianapolis had run away from ■ bis two senatorial opponents, ■ Walter Myers and L. William ■ Curry. Dailey headquarters at I Indianapolis stated at midnight ■ last night that Dailey would ■ come close to having a majority I in the primary race. In the eighth district congressional ■ contest. Don C. Ward, of Union City. ■ was leading Lawrence Opliger, of De- ■ catttr, on the Democratic ticket about ■ two to one. Opliger made a strong ■ fight in Adams county, but was being swept under in the southern counties. , In the Republican senatorial contest. Attorney-General Arthur Gil-. i liom and Senator Arthur Robinson, | incumbent, were running a nip-and- j luck race for the sepfttpruW. nominal ion with Solon J- Carter a poor third. The Republican gubernatorial contest was doubtful at 1 o’clock this morning, but indications were that Frederick Landis, of logansport. Charles Jewett, of Indianapolis, and Frederick Schortem'eier, secretary of state, were the leading contenders. In the Republican presidential preferential contest, early returns gave Herbert Hoover a big lead over Senator James Watson of Indiana. Most of the early returns were from industrial centers where Hoover claimed his strength and the Watson forces filmed early this morning that later returns from the rural districts would wipe out Hoover’s early lead. i (-o V'"lX i;El) OX PAGE THREE)

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Vol. XXVI. No. 110.

Rev. Hanna Leaves For His Home In Missouri The Rev. Jay Hanns, former Presbyterian minister of this city left yesterday for Chicago, enroute to his I home in Osceola, Missouri, having vlslited over the week-end at the Fred Pat- | terson residence cn Rtigg street. Rev. (I Hanna is retiring front the minister)' after thirty-five years service, and will leave shortly, together with Mrs. Hanna. for Glendale, a surburb of Los Angeles, where they wil establish their permanent home. Rev. Hanna substi tilted for the Rev. || || Perntheil, who is ill with influenza, at the mornI ing services cf the Presbyterian ■ church Sunday. OFFERED POSITION AS COLLEGE HEAD Pastor Os Berne Mennonite Church Seeks Release To Accept Post Berne, May S. —(Special)—The Rev. P. R. Schroeder, pastor of the First Mennonite church of Berne for nearly sixteen years, announced to his congregation Sunday, that he had received a call to the presidency of Freeman College. Freeman, South Dakota, and also a call to the superintendency of the Bothel Deaconess Hospital, at Newton, Kansas. He said that he had accepted the call to the college presidency, provided his congregation vot ed to release him and accept his resignation. The will of the congregation is to be expressed on ballots which he himself prepared and which were distributed to the members after he had | made the announcement, and which are to be returned not later than next Sunday noon. May 13. The bal’ots state that if three-fifths or more of the votes cast are for retaining the pastor, he shall be retained. If more than two-fifths of the votes cast are for releasing the pastor, he shall be released. Rev. Schroeder announced that in case he is released, he intends to leave Berne by the first of August. The first year and a half Rev. Schroeder was here he served as assistant. to Rev. S. F. Sprunger, while waiting to be sent as missionary to India, to which he had been called. <(0X11X1 El) OX PAGE THREE)

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i SEVEN BANDITS LOOT NATIONAL BANK AT ANGOLA I < Bandits Arouse President From Bed And Force Him To Open Bank MAKE ESCAPE WITH $15,000 Angola. Ind.. May 8. <U.R) S ven xvell-dressed, perfectly mannered bandits, today robbed the First National Bank here of $15,000. The robbers entered the town I at 3 a.bl, and went directly Io the home of E. F. Croxton. [president of the bank and roused Croxton from his bed. Wait 5 Hours For Cashier Forcing Croxton to go with them to the bank, the seven men gained entrance. Baffled by a time lock they calmly sat down to wait, conversing intelligently with the bank president for five hours until D. B. Goodale, cashier, entered at 8 o'clock. Promptly forcing Goodale to manipu’.ate the time lock, the bandits swept up the money, held the officials at 'bay until they reached an automobile and then sped out of the city in the direction of Toledo. Passes started in pursuit, immediately. o Hoover Gets Maryland’s Votes In Convention i Baltimore, Md., May' B—(lNS)—Herbert Hoover will have Maryland’s 19 votes in the Republican national convention. Virtually complete returns today from yesterday’s primary showed the cabinet candidate for the presidency scored an easy victory. o Mr. And Mrs. Pumphrey Attend Relative’s Funeral Mr. ard Mrs. C. C. Pumphrey are in Johnstown, Pa. atending the funeral of Mrs. Pumphrey's sister, who died on Friday, May 4. Mrs. Pumphrey was called to the bedside of her sister several weeks ago. Mr. Pumphrey left Saturday evening, in response to a message announcing the death.

Decatur, Indiana', Wednesday, May 9, 1928.

Father Sues Son For SIO,OOO As Result Os Automobile Accident Peru, Ind., May B^-nNS) —Father and son are the principals in an unusual damage suit filed in the Miami circuit court here. Walter Butt, a wealthy landowner, is suing his son, Earl Butt, for 116.000 damages for injuries received while riding in the son’s automobile. The complaint alleged that the son drove the car at a rapid speed, passed a “stop" sign and crashed into another car. The suit was filed after an insurance company with which the son carried a liability policy refused to pay the elder Butts on the ground that he was related to the policy holder. o MEETING PLANNED AT KOHR SCHOOL L. M. Briggs, Os Indianapolis, Is Speaker For Farm Bureau Meeting Another of the series of Farm Bureau meetings being held throughout Adams count has been scheduled to be held at the Kohr school house in Union township, on Thursday evening. May 10. L. M. Briggs, of Indianapolis, will be the principal speaker. He will talk on farm problems and farm organization. Mr. Briggs is well known to Adams countj' farmers, having delivered three or four addresses throughout the county already this spring A good program has been arranged by the committee in charge. Mr. John Tyndall will act as charman of the .meeting and additional talks will be made by O. L. Vance, George Krick and Mr. Klepper. Special music will be rendered by the Blakey quartette. All Union township farmers are invited to attend this big gettegether meeting. Thursday evening. o Daylight Savings Favored By Fort Wayne Voters Fort Wayne, May 9. —(INS)—lndications are that the daylight savings ordinance will pass by a large majority in Fort Wayne, as returns favoring the law continue do pour in front industr.al districts.

VOTE IS HEAVY IN CITIES BUT LIGHT - IN RURAL REGIONS r 1 Hoosiers Voting Preference ' For President, Governor And Senator > AVERAGE VOTE IS t * ( AST IN DECATUR Indianapolis, May 8. — unsi— With unusually heavy early votes reported in the industrial centers, and a fair strength in 1 the rural regions, it appeared [this afternoon that more than 700,000 Indiana voters would re- ( cord their preference for presi- • dent, United States senator, governor and local offices in the primary election today. • "The heaviest morning voting in the history of South Bend," was the result In that city according to election officials. In Fort Wayne, a lead- , ing battle* ground for the fight between IT. S. Senator James E. Watson i and Herbert Hoover for Indiana's 33 , Republican votes for president, an extremely heavy morning vote was ’ enrolled. Urban Vote Mostly Light The urban vote was heavy in the [ following counties it was revealed by I. N. S. survey; Delaware. Wayne, - Shelby, Franklin. Dußoise, Knox, Fay- ■ ette, Lawrence. Posey, Fountain and Madison. I However, the agriculture vote, on the whole, was light during the morn- ’ Ing. caused perhaps by the fact that the farmers were taking advantage of . the splendid weather to carry on work in the fields, which had been i . r«>x-rix i fi> ox page three) Boy Killed In Auto W reck Near Fort Wayne — Fort Wayne, Ind., May 8. — (U.R) — Huber Meddles, 16, Columbus, Ohio, was fatally injured near here when his mother, becoming excited grabbe dthe steering wheel of an auto driven by a friend, causing the car to plunge down an embankment anil turn over several times.

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Meeting At Calvary Church To Be Held Friday Night 111 - The regular preachnig service at ’he I Calvary Evangelical chureh east of this city, will be held on Friday night, 'it 8 o'clock, Sun time, instead of Thursday night, the pastor, the 11 Rev. R. W. Loose, said today. Rev. Ixxose. who has been assigned to the pnstorate of a church at Louisville, k Ky„ will preach his farewell sermon at Calvary Friday night. He will not move to Louisville until next week, however, and will conduct his final services at the Decatur Evangelical church Sunday. JAP-CHINESE CRISIS GROWS Japan Virtually Declares War On China By Seizing Important Railroad By D. C. Bess. UP Staff Correspondent. Peking, May 8.—8:10 p. m.— (U.R)—The gravest move in recent Chinese history was made today when Japan formally announced her seizure of the Tsingtao-Tsinan railway in Shantung, w here Nationalist j troops are driving toward Pekling. The seizure was regarded py foreign military observers here as a virtual declaration of war. Simultaneously with the announcement came news that fighting had recommenced at Tsinan between Nationalists and the 3,000 Japanese troops defending the foreign quarter. Japs De'iver Ultimatum When fighting was resumed, dis- | patches said, the Japanese expeditionary force destroyed the Chinese barracks with explosives and delivered an ultimatum demanding immediate exacuation of Tsinan and a zone extending for J seven miles each side [of the Tsinan-Tsingtao railway. The Nationalist troops, it was reported, have taken the offensive against the Japanese force. To Send More Troops Tokio* May 8 — (U.R) —The cabinet today decided to send a third military expedition, consisting of 18,000 men to China. _ , ■ -

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I COMPLETE VOTE ' NECESSARY TO ; NAME WINNERS I ■■ Adams County Democrats Have Five Exceptionally Close Contests I REPUBLICAN TICKET WITHOUT CONTESTS The contest for county surveyor between Roop and Tonnelier, of Decatur, and Gilliom, of Berne, was close, and at 5 o'clock this morning one precinct, third ward B. Decatur, was still out. The complete unofficial count for surveyor gave Roop a lead over Gilliom, his nearest opponent, by 20 votes. While there was a possibility of James Foreman defeatfeating George Shoemaker for commissioner when the last precinct is reported. Shoemaker now leads by about 70 votes. Close contests marked the Adams county Democratic primary election yesterday and the winners for the various county offices were not determined until the last few precincts were heard from. The winners, according to the unofficial count, follow: Prosecutor, Nathan Nelson. Auditor, Albert Harlow. Recorder, Mrs. Clara Anderson. Surveyor, Raiph Roop. Commissioner third district, George Shoemaker. Sheiiff Harl Hollingsworth, Democratic candidate for re-election; Ed Ashbaucher, candidate on the Democratic ticket for reelection as treasurer: John G. Hoffman, commissioner of tlte first district and candidate for re-election, and Dr. J C. Grandstaff, incumbent coroner, were nominated in tlie Democratic primary without opposition. Large Crowd Gets Returns The latge crowd which stood in the Daily Democrat office and out on the street were moved several times with tense excitement as returns from a new precinct would change the entire complexion of the various contests. In the Democratic contest for prosecutor, Nathan Nelson, of Geneva, defeated Ed Bosse and B. F. Roller, of Decatur, in a close finish, the result being in doubt until the south vote gave Nelson a safe margin. Early in the evening the three candidates ran about even, witli Bosse holding a slight lead. When the (COXTIX'I El) OX PAGE THHER) TREASURER BUSY WITH HIS MAIL Semi-Annual Rush Os Taxpayers Ends; Total Paid Not Determined County Treasurer Ed Ashbaucher was today opening the mail which arrived at the treasurer's office yesterday and today, containing checks and money orders in payment for the spring installment of taxes. The rush was so heavy last Saturday and Monday , that it was impossible to open the mail. Mr. Ashbaucher stat ed today that the checks received in today's mail would be credited, as if they were received yesterday. The total amount of the current taxes is $904,721.32 and the delinquent tuxes amount to $8,488.67. Up to Apr! 30, $223,749.57 had been paid, Mr. Ashbaucher stated, leaving $228.611.09 ter the last six days. Last Saturday, the receipts amounted to more titan $48,000. The receipts yesterday were heavy, but the total was not available this morning, for the payments received in the mails will not be credited for a day or two. The delinquent taxes will not be any more than a year ago, it is believed. The spring installment of taxes generally amounts to more than the fall payments, for the reason that some taxpayers pay the entire year in the spring. Mr. Ashbaucher and his deputies took care cf the crowd in fine shape and even during the rush hours went out of his way to accommodate those who waited until the last minute to file complaint about separating tax receipts and / making division of taxes.

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